Tales of prospecting for gold may conjure up images of treasure hunters victoriously uncovering massive rocks of the valuable metal. In reality, prospecting was hard, back-breaking work, with days ...

The American Gold Rush was a wild, chaotic time that transformed the country almost overnight. In the mid-1800s, prospectors — known as “forty-niners,” since the peak of the Gold Rush occurred during ...

CARTAGENA, Colombia – An underwater mission to investigate a 300-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Colombia has revealed new photos of gold coins. The San José Galleon was sunk in 1708 by a British ...